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...George Crile and Correspondent Mike Wallace willfully ignored evidence that supported him. To bolster his attack, Westmoreland's attorney Dan Burt summoned as witnesses both Rostow, who had given a three-hour interview to CBS that was left on the cutting-room floor, and former Special Ambassador Robert Komer, who was not even questioned by the CBS producers...
...that Johnson had been well aware of disputes among military factions and the CIA over how to count "self-defense" and "secret self-defense" forces. These fighters, who operated, respectively, in enemy-and U.S.-held territory, laid traps and took potshots but were not part of regular combat units. Komer, who was known to Viet Nam-era journalists as Blow Torch for his high-powered manner, was asked by CBS Attorney David Boies whether these forces were armed. Komer laughed. "We never could find these people," he said, "much less determine whether they were armed." Responding to CBS charges that...
...singer and two guitarists belonged to a tiny circle of stubborn white blues players headed by Alexis Komer, himself a guitarist and leader of band called Blues Incorporated. Komer, though a talented musician, was destined to leave his mark as a matchmaker, not a performer. By letting punks like Jagger, Richards and Jones sit in with Blues Inc., he gave them an opportunity to prove they were as good as they said they were...
...July 12, 1962, a group called The Rolling Stones debuted at the Marquee Club. Some weeks later, another former Komer employee, drummer Charlie Watts, signed on with the new band, and they added bassist Bill Wyman because he had the biggest amp in town...
...warning came last week from an experienced hand, Bob ("The Blowtorch") Komer, former New Frontiersman for John Kennedy, former Great Society warrior for Lyndon Johnson, former Under Secretary of Defense for Jimmy Carter. Said The Blowtorch, a man who is proud of his compassionate past and concerned about the perilous future: "If we don't first take care of the economy and our national security, there ain't going to be school lunches for anybody...